Pequea is an unincorporated community that is located in Martic Township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States.

Shoff owned a sawmill and lumber yard and managed the York Furnace Power company.

[2] Between 1902 and 1903, Shoff built in the three-story, seventy-five-bedroom Riverview Hotel on the bank of the Susquehanna and then sold it to Heine in 1904.

The hotel also had a dining room, banquet hall, summer garden, tennis courts, croquet courts, swings with canopies, and a miniature railway to York Furnace that used a steam locomotive that had been manufactured by Timothy Cagney and his brothers David and John.

Pequea has a hot-summer humid continental climate (Dfa) and average monthly temperatures range from 31.0 °F in January to 75.4 °F in July.